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    Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
    Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
    Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
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    Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World

    Written by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall

    Narrated by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall

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    Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback.

    These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies-distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking-running through our organizational lives.

    But there are those who can get past the lies and discover what's real. These are freethinking leaders who recognize the power and beauty of our individual uniqueness, who know that emergent patterns are more valuable than received wisdom, and that evidence is more powerful than dogma. With engaging stories and incisive analysis, the authors reveal the essential truths that such freethinking leaders will recognize immediately: that it is the strength and cohesiveness of your team, not your company's culture, that matters most; that we need less focus on top-down planning and more on giving our people reliable, real-time intelligence; that rather than trying to align people's goals we should strive to align people's sense of purpose and meaning; that people don't want constant feedback, they want helpful attention. This is the real world of work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateApr 2, 2019
    ISBN9781469074085
    Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
    Author

    Marcus Buckingham

    Marcus Buckingham’s bestselling books have sold more than four million copies. The world's foremost thought leader on strengths and performance, Marcus relentlessly seeks the fundamental truths that help people unleash their greatest potential. He began his career as a researcher at Gallup, spending two decades studying excellence in leaders and teams. In 2006, he launched the Marcus Buckingham Company, which delivers education, coaching, and HR technology to some of the world’s most prestigious firms. Marcus has been profiled in Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, and Fast Company and has worked with companies such as Facebook, Cisco, Deloitte, Hilton, Lululemon, and The Walt Disney Company.

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    • 3/5
      This book speaks about things that we already know but in a assertive and explained way.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great book, new way to look on hr management every day questions
    • 5/5
      Excellent, insightful and a refreshingly clear view into reality. Thank you!
    • 5/5
      Compassionate clear free thinking about work in the modern world.
    • 4/5
      This has a lot of information about talking about how you talk about people. If you rate people of any kind whether it is formal or not. This should be an important read.
    • 5/5
      It has different view like a lot
    • 5/5
      Very thought-provoking and full of great, vivid examples to illustrate each “lie about work”
    • 5/5
      This book neatly takes the opposing view for everything we should question about the conventional wisdom on engagement at work. The authors' points are backed by real-world examples and plenty of empirical evidence. For the benefit of the key leadership points, I've added this book to my top shelf of leadership guides.